Gov't pardons farmers convicted under old Wheat Board law R

[styky]

Gov't pardons farmers convicted under old Wheat Board law

Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/gov-t-pa ... z22L95u1JI

[RedDog]

The comments at the CBC site are a sea of exploding heads.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/201 ... -over.html

The hate and rage over correcting decades of misguided destruction of this country is astonishing. None of them of course ever touch on central and eastern farmers not being subjected to slave servitude by the wheat board. They pick and choose points of debate as lefties always do as though life is a buffet just for them with no lineup.

The level of resentment, envy and jealousy down east is bordering on mental illness. They need help. Of course, Albertans will be the ones paying for that help, although I suspect it's too late for most of them.

[RadicallyLiberal]

Harper said he was granting the pardon under a rarely invoked power.
“To the authority of the Crown falls an ancient power; the Royal Prerogative of Mercy,” Harper said.

I can think of dozens of classes of so-called crimes where this power should be invoked.

[styky]

Wheat board pardons from Harper could open the door to abuse of power, critics charge


By Douglas Quan, Postmedia News August 2, 2012
Normally, when someone wants to be pardoned for a past crime they have to apply to the Parole Board of Canada.

But on rare occasions, the government can exercise what Prime Minister Harper referred to this week as an “ancient power”: the Royal Prerogative of Mercy.

That’s exactly what it did in suspending the records of a group of farmers convicted years ago of taking their grain across the border to sell in the U.S. against the law.

Critics say the move politicizes the pardon process and worry that this sort of discretionary power could be open to abuse. After Wednesday’s announcement, interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae tweeted that the granting of pardons is not supposed to be partisan. “They’re corrupting the process,” he wrote..................http://www.canada.com/news/Wheat+board+ ... story.html

[RedDog]

Abuse of power? How many liberal party members up to and including Chretien have faced charges over AdScam? His own daughter was on the payroll of an ad agency where nobody ever saw her or met her.

Only in a banana republic pretend country could a man be jailed for giving a bag of grain to a child.